Tour de Yorkshire land art winner unveiled

Some of the land art at the year's Tour de Yorkshire was just brilliant, and the team behind the race, Welcome to Yorkshire, ran a competition to find the best.

This has just been announced as the winner:

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Land art is just that, art that uses the landscape as the canvas.

Judges decided that this year's best offering was an image of Branwell Brontë riding his bicycle which was designed by Andrew Wood and created with help from the children at Haworth Primary School.

The artwork measured 80 X 65 metres was made
using recycled materials including waste marquee carpet and 3,000 plant pots. You know, like most paintings.

Quote Message: This is a fitting winner as the image of Branwell riding his bicycle is a perfect tribute to two trademarks of Yorkshire – the Brontës and cycling.” from Sir Gary Verity Welcome to Yorkshire

This is a fitting winner as the image of Branwell riding his bicycle is a perfect tribute to two trademarks of Yorkshire – the Brontës and cycling.”